Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Two Horny Old Men

Susanna and the Elders by the Italian painter Agostino Carracci (1557-1602). One is already climbing over the balustrade, a real work of action.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Studying Sinner

Reading Mary Magdalene by the Italian painter Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (1535-1607). The penitent sinner is studying and in front of her lies a skull reminding the vanity a all material desires.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Ghoulish Queen

Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist (1910) by the Swiss Symbolist painter Adolf Frey-Moock (1881-1954). All is illuminated with a ghoulish green. And Salome is wearing also a snake bangle making the connection to Eve and all the other evil women.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Eternal Seductress

Cameron Diaz in the movie "Bad Teacher" (2011). She poses as the eternal seductress, the bad woman, offering the evil apple.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Masked Tamar

Tamar by the Russian painter Marc Zaharovich Chagall (1887-1985). Disguised she's waiting for old Judah.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Catched

Potiphar’s Wife and Joseph by the Italian Baroque painter Paolo Domenico Finoglia, or Finoglio (c. 1590 – 1645). She has already grasped his cloak.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Seductive Judith

Judith by the Flemish manierist painter Jan Massys (c. 1509-1575). Even today she looks really seductive.